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Article #177Re: Currency symbols (was someone hates to tell us something)
From: Christer Johansson
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1986 03:42
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1986 03:42
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In article <840@rtech.UUCP> of Sun, 26-Jan-86 17:26:41 GMT
jeff@rtech.UUCP writes:
>
>How do you guys in Europe handle this problem? Each of the national character
>sets has a symbol for the currency of its own country, doesn't it?
>
The Swedish currency, the crown (krona) and <untransletable, but equivalent to
cent and pence> ( {o"}re), doesn't really have a symbol (and doesn't need one
either.) In Sweden three crowns fifty ore is written 3:50, and three crowns 3:-
When the currency is spelled out we write 3,50 kronor (Yes, we use a floating
comma, not a floating point.) the most commonly used abbreviations are kr and
skr, but the official abbreviation of kronor is SEK.
I think the currencysymbol is a circle with four 'rays'. It's sometimes known
as a sun.
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